Llanquihue Province ( es, Provincia de Llanquihue) is one of four

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of the

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of Los Lagos (X). Its capital is

Puerto Montt Puerto Montt (Mapuche: Meli Pulli) is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago. The commune ...

. Chile's second largest lake, Lake Llanquihue, is located in the province as well as four volcanoes: Osorno,

Calbuco Calbuco is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Calbuco. Administratively Calbuco belongs to the Llanquihue Province of Los Lagos Region. The origin of the city was the Spanish Fort Calbuco founded in 1603, ...

, Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador. European settlement of Llanquihue began in 1852 when

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were encouraged to immigrate to southern Chile. A century later in 1945 a new wave of

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refugees came from Germany.Colonización alemana en Llanquihue
The region is well known for the beauty of its natural environment as well as for the food and seafood from the ports of

and

Administration

As a province, Llanquihue is a second-level

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of Chile, governed by a municipality for each constituent commune ( Spanish: ''comuna'').

is the provincial

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. The provincial governor is Francisco Le-Bretón as appointed by the

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Communes

* Cochamó * Fresia * Frutillar * Llanquihue * Los Muermos * Maullín *

* Puerto Varas

Geography and demography

According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (''INE''), the province spans an area of and had a population of 321,493 inhabitants (162,636 men and 158,857 women), giving it a population density of . Of these, 232,962 (72.5%) lived in urban areas and 88,531 (27.5%) in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 22.4% (58,931 persons).

Cities

* Frutillar *

* Puerto Varas * Llanquihue * Fresia *

References

{{Authority control Provinces of Los Lagos Region Provinces of Chile